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	{{Template:Ac}}[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gagnon '''John H. Gagnon'''] (November 22, 1931 – February 11, 2016) was a pioneering sociologist of human sexuality who wrote and edited 15 books and over 100 articles. Whilst working at the [[Alfred_Kinsey\|Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction]] at Indiana University (1959-1968), Gagnon worked on the Sex Offenders Legacy project using the data gathered by Kinsey's team to produce the influential study ''Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types'' (1965) - a work cited by generations of scholars since including [[MAP]] pioneers such as [[Tom O'Carroll]] and [[Edward Brongersma]]. Most famously, Gagnon collaborated with [[William Simon]] to develop the work he is most recognized for: "''Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality''" (1973).<ref>[https://library.lol/main/3D787B932E0242C27FB350DA1B966D09 Sexual conduct: the social sources of human sexuality, (2017, 2nd edn. [1973<nowiki>]</nowiki>)].</ref> Referenced by [[MAP]] sympathetic researchers' including [[Gayle Rubin]]<ref>Gayle Rubin (2002) 'Studying Sexual Subcultures: Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in North America' in E. Lewin and W . ''Leap Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthology''. University of Illinois Press.</ref>, [[Beatrice Faust]], [[Donald West]], and [[Ken Plummer]], the latter dubbed their book "[[Media:Plummer_-_1975_-_Review_on_Social_Scripts_pdf.pdf\|quite probably the single most important general sociological study of sexuality that has ever been published]]." Gagnon was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he taught and from 1968 to 1998. During that time, he dedicated himself to advancing the field of sociology through research.		{{Template:Ac}}[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gagnon '''John H. Gagnon'''] (November 22, 1931 – February 11, 2016) was a pioneering sociologist of human sexuality who wrote and edited 15 books and over 100 articles. Whilst working at the [[Alfred_Kinsey\|Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction]] at Indiana University (1959-1968), Gagnon worked on the Sex Offenders Legacy project using the data gathered by Kinsey's team to produce the influential study ''Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types'' (1965) - a work cited by generations of scholars since - including [[MAP]] pioneers such as [[Tom O'Carroll]] and [[Edward Brongersma]].

			Most famously, Gagnon collaborated with [[William Simon]] to develop the work he is most recognized for: "''Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality''" (1973).<ref>[https://library.lol/main/3D787B932E0242C27FB350DA1B966D09 Sexual conduct: the social sources of human sexuality, (2017, 2nd edn. [1973<nowiki>]</nowiki>)].</ref> Referenced by [[MAP]] sympathetic researchers' including [[Gayle Rubin]]<ref>Gayle Rubin (2002) 'Studying Sexual Subcultures: Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in North America' in E. Lewin and W . ''Leap Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthology''. University of Illinois Press.</ref>, [[Beatrice Faust]], [[Donald West]], and [[Ken Plummer]], the latter dubbed their book "[[Media:Plummer_-_1975_-_Review_on_Social_Scripts_pdf.pdf\|quite probably the single most important general sociological study of sexuality that has ever been published]]." Gagnon was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he taught and from 1968 to 1998. During that time, he dedicated himself to advancing the field of sociology through research.

	As [[LeRoy G. Schultz]] pointed out,<ref>Leroy Schultz, 'Psychotherapeutic and legal approaches to the sexually		As [[LeRoy G. Schultz]] pointed out,<ref>Leroy Schultz, 'Psychotherapeutic and legal approaches to the sexually

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	victimized child', ''International Journal of Child Psychotherapy'', Vol. 1, No.4, 1972, pp. 115-28. Cited in O'Carroll, ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'' (1980).</ref> Gagnon (1965 below) described underage female sex partners in unlawful age-gap sex "as having a "collaborative" role in the offence in 7.8 per cent of 330 offences," and "as "encouraging" to the offender in from 66 per cent to 95 per cent of all sex offences" in an earlier study (with Paul Gebhard, 1964, cited below).		victimized child', ''International Journal of Child Psychotherapy'', Vol. 1, No.4, 1972, pp. 115-28. Cited in O'Carroll, ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'' (1980).</ref> Gagnon (1965 below) described underage female sex partners in unlawful age-gap sex "as having a "collaborative" role in the offence in 7.8 per cent of 330 offences," and "as "encouraging" to the offender in from 66 per cent to 95 per cent of all sex offences" in an earlier study (with Paul Gebhard, 1964, cited below).

	In 1965, he published ''Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child'', an accessible and early essay on the changing social construction and symbolic significance of childhood.<ref>[https://www.sci-hub.wf/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 John H. Gagnon, (1965). Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child, ''Psychiatry'', 28:3, 212-228]. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 DOI hyperlink]).</ref> In 1970, Gagnon and Simon published ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', a study guide for the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).<ref>[https://widenersexualityarchives.org/en/permalink/descriptions154 Gagnon and Simon (1970). ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', SIECUS Study Guide No. 11, Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), New York]. (External archive link).</ref> The text begins by pointing out [[Research:_Secondary_Harm#Intervention_and_reactions\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]].		In 1965, he published ''Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child'', an accessible and early essay on the changing social construction and symbolic significance of childhood.<ref>[https://www.sci-hub.wf/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 John H. Gagnon, (1965). Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child, ''Psychiatry'', 28:3, 212-228]. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 DOI hyperlink]).</ref> In 1970, Gagnon and Simon published ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', a study guide for the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).<ref>[https://widenersexualityarchives.org/en/permalink/descriptions154 Gagnon and Simon (1970). ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', SIECUS Study Guide No. 11, Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), New York]. (External archive link).</ref> The text begins by pointing out [[Research:_Secondary_Harm#Intervention_and_reactions\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]].<ref>As quoted in our page on secondary harm:
			''The report by a child that an adult has had some kind of sexual contact with him almost invariably arouses a deep sense of outrage and anger on the part of the adult community-parents, police, even bystanders. The intensity of these reactions is explainable and understandable but unfortunately often has serious harmful consequences for the child, the offender, and society at large. Reactions of outrage and anger have obscured matters of personal adjustment and family life as well as matters of public policy. It may well be that the expression of outrage and anger by parents or other attending adults may place the child in greater jeopardy of psychic wounding than he or she faced during the commission of the offense itself.''
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	==Selected publications==		==Selected publications==

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	{{Template:Ac}}[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gagnon '''John H. Gagnon'''] (November 22, 1931 – February 11, 2016) was a pioneering sociologist of human sexuality who wrote and edited 15 books and over 100 articles. Whilst working at the [[Alfred_Kinsey\|Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction]] at Indiana University (1959-1968), Gagnon worked on the Sex Offenders Legacy project using the data gathered by Kinsey's team to produce the influential study ''Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types'' (1965) - a work cited by generations of scholars since including [[MAP]] pioneers such as [[Tom O'Carroll]] and [[Edward Brongersma]]. Most famously, Gagnon collaborated with [[William Simon]] to develop the work he is most recognized for: "''Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality''" (1973). Referenced by [[MAP]] sympathetic researchers' including [[Gayle Rubin]]<ref>Gayle Rubin (2002) 'Studying Sexual Subcultures: Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in North America' in E. Lewin and W . ''Leap Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthology''. University of Illinois Press.</ref>, [[Beatrice Faust]], [[Donald West]], and [[Ken Plummer]], the latter dubbed their book "[[Media:Plummer_-_1975_-_Review_on_Social_Scripts_pdf.pdf\|quite probably the single most important general sociological study of sexuality that has ever been published]]." Gagnon was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he taught and from 1968 to 1998. During that time, he dedicated himself to advancing the field of sociology through research.		{{Template:Ac}}[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gagnon '''John H. Gagnon'''] (November 22, 1931 – February 11, 2016) was a pioneering sociologist of human sexuality who wrote and edited 15 books and over 100 articles. Whilst working at the [[Alfred_Kinsey\|Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction]] at Indiana University (1959-1968), Gagnon worked on the Sex Offenders Legacy project using the data gathered by Kinsey's team to produce the influential study ''Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types'' (1965) - a work cited by generations of scholars since including [[MAP]] pioneers such as [[Tom O'Carroll]] and [[Edward Brongersma]]. Most famously, Gagnon collaborated with [[William Simon]] to develop the work he is most recognized for: "''Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality''" (1973).<ref>[https://library.lol/main/3D787B932E0242C27FB350DA1B966D09 Sexual conduct: the social sources of human sexuality, (2017, 2nd edn. [1973<nowiki>]</nowiki>)].</ref> Referenced by [[MAP]] sympathetic researchers' including [[Gayle Rubin]]<ref>Gayle Rubin (2002) 'Studying Sexual Subcultures: Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in North America' in E. Lewin and W . ''Leap Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthology''. University of Illinois Press.</ref>, [[Beatrice Faust]], [[Donald West]], and [[Ken Plummer]], the latter dubbed their book "[[Media:Plummer_-_1975_-_Review_on_Social_Scripts_pdf.pdf\|quite probably the single most important general sociological study of sexuality that has ever been published]]." Gagnon was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he taught and from 1968 to 1998. During that time, he dedicated himself to advancing the field of sociology through research.

	As [[LeRoy G. Schultz]] pointed out,<ref>Leroy Schultz, 'Psychotherapeutic and legal approaches to the sexually		As [[LeRoy G. Schultz]] pointed out,<ref>Leroy Schultz, 'Psychotherapeutic and legal approaches to the sexually
	victimized child', ''International Journal of Child Psychotherapy'', Vol. 1, No.4, 1972, pp. 115-28. Cited in O'Carroll, ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'' (1980).</ref> Gagnon (1965 below) described underage female sex partners in unlawful age-gap sex "as having a "collaborative" role in the offence in 7.8 per cent of 330 offences," and "as "encouraging" to the offender in from 66 per cent to 95 per cent of all sex offences" in an earlier study (with Paul Gebhard, 1964, cited below).		victimized child', ''International Journal of Child Psychotherapy'', Vol. 1, No.4, 1972, pp. 115-28. Cited in O'Carroll, ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'' (1980).</ref> Gagnon (1965 below) described underage female sex partners in unlawful age-gap sex "as having a "collaborative" role in the offence in 7.8 per cent of 330 offences," and "as "encouraging" to the offender in from 66 per cent to 95 per cent of all sex offences" in an earlier study (with Paul Gebhard, 1964, cited below).

	In 1965, he published ''Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child'', an accessible and early essay on the changing social construction and symbolic significance of childhood.<ref>[https://www.sci-hub.wf/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 John H. Gagnon, (1965). Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child, ''Psychiatry'', 28:3, 212-228]. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 DOI hyperlink]).</ref> In 1970, Gagnon and Simon published ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', a ~~Study Guide~~ for the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).<ref>[https://widenersexualityarchives.org/en/permalink/descriptions154 Gagnon and Simon (1970). ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', SIECUS Study Guide No. 11, Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), New York]. (External archive link).</ref>		In 1965, he published ''Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child'', an accessible and early essay on the changing social construction and symbolic significance of childhood.<ref>[https://www.sci-hub.wf/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 John H. Gagnon, (1965). Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child, ''Psychiatry'', 28:3, 212-228]. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 DOI hyperlink]).</ref> In 1970, Gagnon and Simon published ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', a study guide for the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).<ref>[https://widenersexualityarchives.org/en/permalink/descriptions154 Gagnon and Simon (1970). ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', SIECUS Study Guide No. 11, Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), New York]. (External archive link).</ref> The text begins by pointing out [[Research:_Secondary_Harm#Intervention_and_reactions\|secondary / iatrogenic harm]].

	==Selected publications==		==Selected publications==

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	victimized child', ''International Journal of Child Psychotherapy'', Vol. 1, No.4, 1972, pp. 115-28. Cited in O'Carroll, ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'' (1980).</ref> Gagnon (1965 below) described underage female sex partners in unlawful age-gap sex "as having a "collaborative" role in the offence in 7.8 per cent of 330 offences," and "as "encouraging" to the offender in from 66 per cent to 95 per cent of all sex offences" in an earlier study (with Paul Gebhard, 1964, cited below).		victimized child', ''International Journal of Child Psychotherapy'', Vol. 1, No.4, 1972, pp. 115-28. Cited in O'Carroll, ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'' (1980).</ref> Gagnon (1965 below) described underage female sex partners in unlawful age-gap sex "as having a "collaborative" role in the offence in 7.8 per cent of 330 offences," and "as "encouraging" to the offender in from 66 per cent to 95 per cent of all sex offences" in an earlier study (with Paul Gebhard, 1964, cited below).

	In 1965, he published ''Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child'', an accessible and early essay on the changing social construction and symbolic significance of childhood.<ref>[https://www.sci-hub.wf/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 John H. Gagnon, (1965). Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child, ''Psychiatry'', 28:3, 212-228]. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 DOI hyperlink]).</ref>		In 1965, he published ''Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child'', an accessible and early essay on the changing social construction and symbolic significance of childhood.<ref>[https://www.sci-hub.wf/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 John H. Gagnon, (1965). Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child, ''Psychiatry'', 28:3, 212-228]. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 DOI hyperlink]).</ref> In 1970, Gagnon and Simon published ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', a Study Guide for the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).<ref>[https://widenersexualityarchives.org/en/permalink/descriptions154 Gagnon and Simon (1970). ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', SIECUS Study Guide No. 11, Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), New York]. (External archive link).</ref>

	==Selected publications==		==Selected publications==
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	*1969 "On Psychosexual Development", in David A. Goslin, ed., ''Handbook of Socialization Theory and Research''. New York: Rand McNally, 1969, pp. 733–752 (with William Simon). Reprinted in Trans-action. 6:5: March 1969, pp. 9–17. 1969, pp. 17–23.		*1969 "On Psychosexual Development", in David A. Goslin, ed., ''Handbook of Socialization Theory and Research''. New York: Rand McNally, 1969, pp. 733–752 (with William Simon). Reprinted in Trans-action. 6:5: March 1969, pp. 9–17. 1969, pp. 17–23.

	*1970. ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', SIECUS Study Guide No. 11, Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), New York. (with William Simon).		*1970. ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', SIECUS Study Guide No. 11, Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), New York. (with William Simon).<ref>[https://widenersexualityarchives.org/en/permalink/descriptions154 Gagnon and Simon (1970). ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', SIECUS Study Guide No. 11, Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), New York]. (External archive link).</ref>

	*1973 ''Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality''. Chicago: Aldine Books, 1973, 316 pp. (with William Simon)		*1973 ''Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality''. Chicago: Aldine Books, 1973, 316 pp. (with William Simon)

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	[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gagnon '''John H. Gagnon'''] (November 22, 1931 – February 11, 2016) was a pioneering sociologist of human sexuality who wrote and edited 15 books and over 100 articles. Whilst working at the [[Alfred_Kinsey\|Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction]] at Indiana University (1959-1968), Gagnon worked on the Sex Offenders Legacy project using the data gathered by Kinsey's team to produce the influential study ''Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types'' (1965) - a work cited by generations of scholars since including [[MAP]] pioneers such as [[Tom O'Carroll]] and [[Edward Brongersma]]. Most famously, Gagnon collaborated with [[William Simon]] to develop the work he is most recognized for: "''Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality''" (1973). Referenced by [[MAP]] sympathetic researchers' including [[Gayle Rubin]]<ref>Gayle Rubin (2002) 'Studying Sexual Subcultures: Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in North America' in E. Lewin and W . ''Leap Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthology''. University of Illinois Press.</ref>, [[Beatrice Faust]], [[Donald West]], and [[Ken Plummer]], the latter dubbed their book "[[Media:Plummer_-_1975_-_Review_on_Social_Scripts_pdf.pdf\|quite probably the single most important general sociological study of sexuality that has ever been published]]." Gagnon was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he taught and from 1968 to 1998. During that time, he dedicated himself to advancing the field of sociology through research.		{{Template:Ac}}[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gagnon '''John H. Gagnon'''] (November 22, 1931 – February 11, 2016) was a pioneering sociologist of human sexuality who wrote and edited 15 books and over 100 articles. Whilst working at the [[Alfred_Kinsey\|Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction]] at Indiana University (1959-1968), Gagnon worked on the Sex Offenders Legacy project using the data gathered by Kinsey's team to produce the influential study ''Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types'' (1965) - a work cited by generations of scholars since including [[MAP]] pioneers such as [[Tom O'Carroll]] and [[Edward Brongersma]]. Most famously, Gagnon collaborated with [[William Simon]] to develop the work he is most recognized for: "''Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality''" (1973). Referenced by [[MAP]] sympathetic researchers' including [[Gayle Rubin]]<ref>Gayle Rubin (2002) 'Studying Sexual Subcultures: Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in North America' in E. Lewin and W . ''Leap Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthology''. University of Illinois Press.</ref>, [[Beatrice Faust]], [[Donald West]], and [[Ken Plummer]], the latter dubbed their book "[[Media:Plummer_-_1975_-_Review_on_Social_Scripts_pdf.pdf\|quite probably the single most important general sociological study of sexuality that has ever been published]]." Gagnon was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he taught and from 1968 to 1998. During that time, he dedicated himself to advancing the field of sociology through research.

	As [[LeRoy G. Schultz]] pointed out,<ref>Leroy Schultz, 'Psychotherapeutic and legal approaches to the sexually		As [[LeRoy G. Schultz]] pointed out,<ref>Leroy Schultz, 'Psychotherapeutic and legal approaches to the sexually

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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gagnon '''John H. Gagnon'''] (November 22, 1931 – February 11, 2016) was a pioneering sociologist of human sexuality who wrote and edited 15 books and over 100 articles. Whilst working at the [[Alfred_Kinsey|Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction]] at Indiana University (1959-1968), Gagnon worked on the Sex Offenders Legacy project using the data gathered by Kinsey's team to produce the influential study ''Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types'' (1965) - a work cited by generations of scholars since including [[MAP]] pioneers such as [[Tom O'Carroll]] and [[Edward Brongersma]]. Most famously, Gagnon collaborated with [[William Simon]] to develop the work he is most recognized for: "''Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality''" (1973). Referenced by [[MAP]] sympathetic researchers' including [[Gayle Rubin]]<ref>Gayle Rubin (2002) 'Studying Sexual Subcultures: Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in North America' in E. Lewin and W . ''Leap Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthology''. University of Illinois Press.</ref>, [[Beatrice Faust]], [[Donald West]], and [[Ken Plummer]], the latter dubbed their book "[[Media:Plummer_-_1975_-_Review_on_Social_Scripts_pdf.pdf|quite probably the single most important general sociological study of sexuality that has ever been published]]." Gagnon was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he taught and from 1968 to 1998. During that time, he dedicated himself to advancing the field of sociology through research.

As [[LeRoy G. Schultz]] pointed out,<ref>Leroy Schultz, 'Psychotherapeutic and legal approaches to the sexually
victimized child', ''International Journal of Child Psychotherapy'', Vol. 1, No.4, 1972, pp. 115-28. Cited in O'Carroll, ''Paedophilia: The Radical Case'' (1980).</ref> Gagnon (1965 below) described underage female sex partners in unlawful age-gap sex "as having a "collaborative" role in the offence in 7.8 per cent of 330 offences," and "as "encouraging" to the offender in from 66 per cent to 95 per cent of all sex offences" in an earlier study (with Paul Gebhard, 1964, cited below).

In 1965, he published ''Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child'', an accessible and early essay on the changing social construction and symbolic significance of childhood.<ref>[https://www.sci-hub.wf/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 John H. Gagnon, (1965). Sexuality and Sexual Learning in the Child, ''Psychiatry'', 28:3, 212-228]. ([http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332747.1965.11023429 DOI hyperlink]).</ref>

==Selected publications==

*1964 'Male sex offenders against very young children', ''American Journal of Psychiatry'', Vol. 121, No. 6, December 1964, pp. 576-9. (With Paul Gebhard).

*1965 "Female Child Victims of Sex Offenses," ''Social Problems''. 13:2: Fall, 1965.

*1965 ''Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types''. New York: Harper and Row, 931 pp. (with Paul H. Gebhard, Cornelia V. Christenson, and Wardell B. Pomeroy).

*1967 "Homosexuality, The Formulation of a Sociological Perspective," ''The Journal of Health and Social Behavior''. 8:3: September 1967, pp. 177–185 (with William Simon).

*1967 ''Sexual Deviance: A Reader'', edited with an introduction written with William Simon. New York: Harper and Row, 1967, 310 pp.

*1969 "On Psychosexual Development", in David A. Goslin, ed., ''Handbook of Socialization Theory and Research''. New York: Rand McNally, 1969, pp. 733–752 (with William Simon). Reprinted in Trans-action. 6:5: March 1969, pp. 9–17. 1969, pp. 17–23.

*1970. ''Sexual Encounters Between Adults and Children'', SIECUS Study Guide No. 11, Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), New York. (with William Simon).

*1973 ''Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality''. Chicago: Aldine Books, 1973, 316 pp. (with William Simon)

*1977 ''Human Sexualities''. Glenview: Scott Foresman, 1977, 432 pp.

*1984 "Sexual Scripts", ''Society''. Vol. 22, No. 1, Nov. – Dec, pp. 53–60. (with William Simon).

*1994 ''The Social Organization of Sexuality''. Chicago; The University of Chicago Press. (Coauthor with Edward Laumann, Robert Michael and Stuart Michaels.) (Received the Gordon Laing Award for the book that added the most distinction to the list of the University of Chicago Press in 1995).

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